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Date Sent: 2010-02-01
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, February 1, 2010 |
US sends in ships & missiles on Iran -- Hillary Threatens China With Isolation Over Iran Sanctions
Asian Stocks Extend Slump Today After US Growth Data -- Obama to Seek Sweeping Change in ‘No Child’ Law -- White House to paint grim fiscal picture -- Mark Steyn: In Obama's America you'll all work for the government -- No sanctions for lawyers who OK'd torture -- Swiss warn UBS bank could collapse -- Jeb Bush and His Father Visit The White House
-- Obama's $3.8 trillion budget heading to Congress -- US Marines
Facing a 'Different War' in Afghanistan -- 2009 Freedom Summit Video,
Judge John Buttrick -- Haiti: US Troops to Enforce Pillaging by the Oil and Petrochemical Elite -- Thousands in Tokyo Protest Against US Troops in Japan -- Bank Failures Skyrocket in 2010 -- Pelo$i Hit$ Taxpayer$ with Thousand$ in Baby$itting, Travel Bill$ --
Anger as NATO Airstrike Kills 4 Afghan Soldiers -- Larry Summers:
"Statistical recovery and a human recession" -- Patient Vaccination
Without Doctor Authorization -- Nobel Peace Prize Winner Obama to seek more money for nukes -- Justin Raimondo: The State of the Empire -- Commercial Mortgages: Loss Severity Hits All Time High Of 52.7% -- China suspends military exchanges with US
Nationwide & NM: Candidate Adam Kokesh's Birthday Money Bomb today
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US raises stakes on Iran by sending in ships and missiles
01-31-2010
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www.guardian.co.uk
"Pentagon says Patriot shield will deter strike on American allies in the Gulf"... (Riiiiight)
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Reported by:
Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Hillary Clinton Threatens China With Isolation Over Iran Sanctions
1-30-10
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AntiWar.com
She warned that China would face diplomatic isolation and disruptions to its energy supply.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - International
Asian Stocks Extend Slump Today After US Growth Data
01-31-2010
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AP
Asian stocks extended their slump Monday as last year's rally showed more signs of petering out.
Most markets pulled back as investors sold down a broad range of sectors, adding to sharp losses over the last couple weeks. The euro recovered modest
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Four Men, a Counter and Soon, Revolution
01-31-2010
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NY Times
Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond and Ezell Blair Jr. arrived, sat down and ordered some food. And when they were refused " refused because they were black, because much of Greensboro was racially segregated, and because Woolworth
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Obama to Seek Sweeping Change in ‘No Child’ Law
01-31-2010
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NY Times
Obama is proposing a sweeping overhaul of President Bush’s signature education law, No Child Left Behind, and will call for broad changes in how schools are judged to be succeeding or failing, as well as for the elimination of the law’s 2014 deadline
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
White House to paint grim fiscal picture
01-31-2010
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Reuters
The White House will predict a $1.6 trillion U.S. budget deficit in the 2010 fiscal year, a fresh record and the biggest since World War Two as a share of the economy.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Political Theory
Mark Steyn: In Obama's America you'll all work for the government
01-31-2010
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Orange County Register
When he's attacking the tired old Washington games, he's just playing the tired old Washington games. But, when he's proposing the tired old Washington solutions, he means it; that's the real Obama, the only Obama on offer.
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Brock Lorber
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
You just gotta love Arizona politician$
01-31-2010
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Arizona Republic
A Phoenix real-estate broker filled a vacancy on the City Council, and ever since, he's championed moving the planned Loop 202 extension south, from Ahwatukee Foothills to the Gila River Reservation. His development deals along the freeway blur
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Obama Administration
No sanctions for lawyers who OK'd torture
01-31-2010
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AP
Bush administration lawyers who drafted legal theories that led to waterboarding and other harsh treatment of terrorism suspects showed poor judgment but won't face sanctions for professional misconduct, according to a published report.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Arrested TSA worker asked girl to be his ’sex slave’
01-31-2010
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Raw Story
A Transportation Security Administration employee in Florida is behind bars this weekend after a 15-year-old girl claimed he groped her and asked if she would be his "sex slave," according to published reports.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Letting babies swim in overchlorinated pools could harm their health for life
01-31-2010
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Reuters
Children who start swimming before the age of 2 may be at increased risk of a common infant lung infection, and possibly asthma and respiratory allergies later in life, a new study suggests.
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Trouser Chili
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News Link • Money Bomb
Adam Kokesh Birthday Bomb, February 1st 2010
01-31-2010
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KokeshForCongress
If you believe that this country needs Adam Kokesh in Congress, please help us ensure that he is on the ballot, and makes a strong showing at the conventions.
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Reported by:
Donna Hancock
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News Link • Economy - International
Swiss warn UBS bank could collapse
01-31-2010
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Breitbart.com
Switzerland's justice minister warned in an interview on Sunday that top bank UBS could collapse if sensitive talks with the United States over a high-profile tax fraud investigation fall through.
"The actions of UBS in the United States are very
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Bush Administration
Jeb Bush and His Father Visit The White House: Biding His Time Till 2012?
1-30-10
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BlackListedNews.com
President Barack Obama hosted a pair of Bushes this morning in the Oval Office: former President George H.W. Bush and his son, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Change in space for NASA: Renting the Right Stuff
01-31-2010
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AP
Getting to space is about to be outsourced. Obama proposes spending billions of dollars to encourage private companies to build, launch and operate spacecraft for NASA and others. Uncle Sam would buy its astronauts a ride into space,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama's $3.8 trillion budget heading to Congress
01-31-2010
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AP
The Obama administration endorsed spending an additional $100 billion to attack painfully high unemployment as it prepared to send Congress a $3.8 trillion budget that increass taxes on the wealthy and imposing a spending freeze on many government pr
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US Marines Facing a 'Different War' in Afghanistan
01-31-2010
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AFP
"I have already made my peace with God because this war is different, it's not conventional," the 23-year-old bespectacled Chicago native says. "These Taliban have learned their lesson. They adapt as fast as we do, but we are bound by our strict rule
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Sticky, smelly Bag Balm: Problem-salving for all
01-31-2010
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AP
Winter is most definitely here. It must be. The phones are ringing at Bag Balm headquarters. Everyone wants a new tub of the gooey, yellow-green ointment. And all have a story about its problem-salving " they use it on squeaky bed springs, psoriasis,
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Top 100 Conservative Websites-Jan 31 2010
01-31-2010
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Mondo Frazier
We’re proud to announce a bi-weekly rating of the Most Popular 100 Conservative sites on the web, the Conservative 100. This is our first. The ratings are based on Alexa traffic rankings 3-month average. Several Libertarian sites are also included, s
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Activism
Activism Alert: Declaration of Independence to Make Ironic Appearance at AZ State Capitol
01-31-2010
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Jet Lacey/AZ Central.com
The Declaration of Independence will make a stop in Arizona next month, with a free one-day only viewing opportunity at the state Capitol. Mark your calendars for Saturday, Feb. 20.
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Jet Lacey
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News Link • New World Order
Haiti: US Troops to Enforce Pillaging by the Oil and Petrochemical Elite
1-31-10
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Rense.com
Behind the unending drama of human tragedy in the hapless Caribbean country, a drama is in full play for control of what may be one of the world's richest zones for hydrocarbons-oil and gas outside the Middle East...
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Reported by:
Jack Gregson
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News Link • Secret Societies
Order of Skull & Bones - Antony C. Sutton pt. 2/4
1-31-10
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YouTube.com
This four part interview of Antony Sutton by Elizabeth Claire Prophet took place around 1984. Despite the interview being over 25 years old the comments by Antony Sutton are very relevant to today.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
BEWARE Conservatives,Thoroughly vet your candidates!
01/31/10
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Uncommon Sense
With all the euphoria that has resulted from the recent Senate victory in Massachusetts conservatives are acting like a 6 yr. old with a sugar rush. I am as happy as anyone with Scott Brown’s victory but I am not ready to anoint him the savior of the
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Dave Johannes
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Thousands in Tokyo Protest Against US Troops in Japan
1-31-10
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GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com
Inquiring minds are noting increasing resentment against US militarism in places some might least expect. Please consider Thousands protest in Tokyo against U.S. military presence in Japan.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Bank Failures Skyrocket in 2010
1-31-10
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
Although the number of failed banks was significantly higher in the late 1980s than it is now, the aggregate assets of failed banks during the current crisis far outweighs those from the 1980s.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Patches O'houlihan: Actor Rip Torn charged with breaking into bank
1-31-10
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RawStory.com
Actor Elmore "Rip" Torn has been charged with breaking into a Connecticut bank and carrying a loaded handgun while intoxicated.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Anger as NATO Airstrike Kills 4 Afghan Soldiers
01-30-2010
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AP
A joint US-Afghan force called in an airstrike on what turned out to be an Afghan army post after taking fire from there before dawn, killing 4 Afghan soldiers and prompting an angry demand for punishment from the country's defense ministry.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Corruption
Her Royal Speak Pelosi Hits Taxpayers with Thousands in Babysitting, Travel Bills
01-30-2010
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Mondo Frazier
Judicial Watch has discovered that Nancy Pelosi stuck taxpayers with the bills for babysitting and flying her kids and grandkids across the country. Doug Ross found that she used the military to do it even when no congressional representatives were
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Randy Ricochet
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News Link • Obama Administration
Larry Summers: "Statistical recovery and a human recession"
1-30-10
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
The following is a statement by the Chief Economic Advisor for President Obama "What we see in the United States and some other economies is a statistical recovery and a human recession."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Vaccines and Vaccinations
An Unwelcome Third Wheel: Patient Vaccination Without Doctor Authorization
01-30-2010
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CLG >>Medical Voices.org
H1N1 and seasonal influenza vaccines are now being given to sick hospital patients with or without their doctor’s consent. This is being done despite there being no data on the safety of doing so.
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Drug War
Jail bans letters? (Marijuana civil disobedience)
01-29-2010
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The Ridley Report
Not all letters, but many peaceful notes, are apparently being rejected at the Valley Street facility because they come from a third party liberty organization. The "banned" group is called Mail-to-Jail.com
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Keith Hamburger
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News Link • Obama Administration
Nobel Peace Prize Winner: Obama to seek more money for nukes
1-30-10
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post-gazette.com/
Obama plans to ask Congress to increase spending on the U.S. nuclear arsenal by more than $5 billion over the next five years as part of its strategy to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and eventually rid the world of them.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • World News
Mahatma Gandhi ashes scattered in sea off South Africa
1-30-10
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news.BBC.co.uk
The ashes were sprinkled on to the Indian Ocean in a Hindu ceremony attended by about 200 people to mark the 62nd anniversary of Gandhi's death.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Justin Raimondo: The State of the Empire
1-29-10
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AntiWar.com
Americans have good cause to be concerned, and even panicked, that when the hegemon goes down it’s going to take all of us with it.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Commercial Mortgages: Loss Severity Hits All Time High Of 52.7%
1-29-10
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ZeroHedge.com
That means that on average less than half the loan is recovered in liquidation. Surely, this is not the kind of news that REITs are looking for as they perch from atop 52 week highs.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
Summers Says 4th Quarter US GDP Report Shows Obama Economic Policies Working
1-30-10
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
A totally manipulated economy that still ,has unemployment in double digits and the private sector dragging, has President Obama's top economic adviser, Larry Summers, crowing as to the wonderful recovery the Obama Administration has created.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Conservatism
What is a Progressive?(&why they should scare you)
01/30/10
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Uncommon Sense
So what is a “progressive” and what is my beef with them? For the answer you must look at American history beginning in the early 1900’s.
“Progressivism” is a reform movement that began in the 1890’s and has remained active to this day. At times
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Dave Johannes
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News Link • Military
China suspends military exchanges with US
01-30-2010
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AP
[Who will clothe our troops?] China suspended military exchanges with the United States and threatened sanctions against American defense companies, just hours after Washington announced $6.4 billion in planned arms sales to Taiwan.
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